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B2B growing pains for Mark Allen?
Mark Allen Group (MAG), the UK-based B2B, which has increased its revenue by 29% and EBITDA profit by 47% in the past five years, may be facing something of a slowdown after more…
22 March 2024
3 minute read
Is Sports Illustrated key to Minute IPO?
Minute Media – the 13-year-old, US-UK-Israel sports digital owner of The Players’ Tribune, FanSided, 90min and STN Video – this week secured a 10-year contract to publish Sports…
22 March 2024
5 minute read
How I do it: Rick Stamberger, ex SmartBrief
Rick (Richard) Stamberger was the founder and CEO of SmartBrief, the B2B newsletter business he sold to Future Plc for some $60mn (2x revenue, 12x EBITDA). The company produced 250 digital…
21 March 2024
7 minute read
My kingdom for a sport: Saudi Arabia goes all in
Sports are among the biggest revenue-generators on Earth. It’s why companies like Apple, Disney, and Amazon are shelling out a king’s ransom to obtain exclusive pro-sports broadcast rights.…
21 March 2024
6 minute read
Trade shows rebound strongly but…
The world’s three largest trade show organisers are expected to achieve aggregate revenues of £3.4bn this year – some 13% ahead of pre-pandemic 2019. Informa, RX and Clarion…
15 March 2024
4 minute read
How I do it: Austin Rief, Morning Brew
Austin Rief is CEO of Morning Brew, the newsletter-centric media business that aims “to empower the modern business leader with engaging and accessible content”. It is nine years…
15 March 2024
11 minute read
How a radio ship and 7 men shook up Britain in 1964
Sixty years ago this month, an aging former Scandinavian passenger ferry was being secretly equipped with a 165-foot radio mast in the privately-owned Irish port of Greenore, in Carlingford…
15 March 2024
30 minute read
A re-start for UK’s news leader?
We have frequently commented on the trials of Reach, the UKs largest news group. Some of the difficulties have been self-inflicted (ie the £450mn acquisition of yet more print newspapers…
8 March 2024
6 minute read
How I do it: Adam White, Front Office Sports
Adam White is CEO and co-founder of Front Office Sports (FOS), the fast-growing US media company covering the business of sports which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. He started…
8 March 2024
15 minute read
Where’s the profit for Reddit?
Within the next few weeks, the first social media company IPO in half a decade will debut. On 22 February, the 18-year-old, US-based “social news, aggregation, content rating and forum social…
7 March 2024
4 minute read
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